Monday, March 19, 2012

DC Bucket List

So, Kassey and I started this list a couple weeks ago and I put it on Facebook. I decided that it was time to put it here as well to find out about other places to go to...
I'll be adding periodically...


- go ice skating in the Scultpure Garden - didn't get to go skating, but went and visited the rink 2/25
- shop in Georgetown and Bethesda ~ Georgetown 3/6
- see cherry blossoms in full bloom 3/24
- visit Chinatown 3/24
- visit the Pentagon and White House ~ Pentagon 3/27
- go to a service in the National Cathedral 4/1
- visit all of the Smithsonians in DC (16)

·      African Art 5/7
·      Air and Space 3/30
·      American Art 4/7
·      American History 5/7
·      American Indian 4/18
·      Freer Gallery 3/30
·      Hirshhorn Museum & Garden 5/7
·      National Zoo 4/6
·      Natural History 3/3
·      Portrait Gallery 4/7
·      Postal Museum 4/17
·      Renwick Gallery
·      Sackler Gallery 5/7
·      Smithsonian Castle 3/3
·      Postal Museum 5/9
·      Anacostia (it’s in a scary part of town, not going there…)

- visit other museums on/around the Mall
·      National Gallery of Art
·      National Building Museum 4/7
·      National Geographic Explorer’s Hall
- go to bed, lights out, legit go to bed, before 10 pm 3/30
- visit Eastern Market 3/31
- go to the Library of Congress to re-up my card and actually use it! 4/16
- visit Iwo Jima Memorial to take pictures, not just drive around and read a story 4/18
- visit an Embassy so I can “travel around the world” 5/5 and 5/12
- Taming of the Shrew performance at Folger's Theater 5/11
- take a paddleboat ride on the Tidal Basin 5/12
- dinner theater 5/13
- attend a concert/play at the Kennedy Center     May 17
- go to the Preakness Race   May 19
- go to the PBS National Memorial Day Concert   May 27
- attend the President's speech at Arlington   May 28
- go to the Memorial Day Parade    May 28
- go to DC Cupcakes
- visit the Supreme Court
- tour Bureau of Printing and Engraving
- flag down a taxi


Highlighted things are ones I still have to do...in 21 days...they're easier to find when they're bright yellow. Dates with May spelled out are potential dates to do things, but I'm not making them definite just yet....

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